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GRAS SHOPPERS 
The infestation of grasshoppers ( Melano'olus spp.) in the Great Plains was 
more widespread tlian it was in 1931 but, in general, less severe. Rainy, cool 
weather in May and June in the southern part of this area resulted in a rank 
growth of wild vegetation and a reduction in damage to cultivated crops. This 
weather was unfavorable to the development of young hoppers, and later para- 
sitic flies and sometimes a fungus disease further reduced the grasshoppers. 
The most seriously infested areas this year were in eastern North Dakota, 
northwestern Minnesota, central and south-central South Dakota, and to a 
lesser extent northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Another section of 
somewhat severe damage was reported from north-central Nebraska. The Ameri- 
can grasshopper {Sch istocerca americana Drury) became unusually abundant in 
the Gulf region and along the south Atlantic seaboard, late in the season. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER 
The European corn borer ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn.) did not spread so far 
as usual this year. Newly infested townships in Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsyl- 
vania, Maryland, and Virginia, however, were found this fall. The corn borer 
is now known to infest portions of the New England, Middle Atlantic, and East 
Central States, westward to Wisconsin and Indiana, and southward to Kentucky, 
West Virginia, and the Eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia, and the eastern 
corn-grcwing provinces of Canada. Populations in general showed increases 
over those of 1931 and 1930. In the one-generation area the densest infes- 
tation is around the eastern end of Lake Ontario in New York State, and the 
greatest increase in population in the eastern three tiers of counties south 
of Lake Huron in Michigan. Along the seaboard of New England and on Long 
Island, New York, the infestation and population increase was heavier than in 
other parts of the two-generation area.. 
ARMYWOEM 
Early in the summer infestations of the anr.yworm ( Cirphis un ipunc ta Haw.) 
were quite generally reported from Iowa and southeastern and eastern Nebraska. 
These, however, did not develop into serious outbreaks. 
CUTWORMS 
During the winter months cutworms were very active throughout the Gulf 
region. During March heavy infestations occurred along the South Atlantic 
seaboard where the worms were damaging tobacco and early truck crops. The 
damage in places to tobacco was more severe than it has been for several 
years. During April one of these insects stripped IOC acres of sugarcane in 
the Everglades section of Florida, and the dark-sided cutworm (Euxoa messoria 
Harr.) was seriously damaging alfalfa in east-central Nebraska. A small out- 
break of the army cutworm ( Chorizagr otis auxiliaris Grote) was reported in 
April in Montana. During May reports of cutworm damage were received from 
practically the entire country, from Maryland to Washington State and south- 
ward to the Gulf. During June the general cutworm outbreak subsided in most 
sections, but the pale western cutworm ( Poro sa^ro t i s o r tho ronia Morr.) and the 
variegated cutworm ( Lycophotia margaritosa aaucia Hbn.) did considerable damage 
over the North Central States from Wisconsin to Montana and southward to 
Kansas and Tennessee. 
